Sentence examples for bitter backlash from inspiring English sources

Bill Maher has sparked a bitter backlash online for appearing to condone Israeli aggression in Gaza and domestic violence in one, fell Twitter swoop.

These were, of course, the years when black Southerners opened a full-scale campaign against Jim Crow, prompting a bitter backlash by white Southerners.

Ministers are in retreat over plans to allow homeowners to build big extensions on their houses without planning permission in the face of a bitter backlash from both Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs.

Google has faced criticism over copyright (back to Murdoch again), concerns over privacy and a bitter backlash from authors and publishers over its controversial programme to digitise millions of books.

Rock audiences, especially in the US, retained a strong streak of homophobia – that was one of the drivers of the ferociously bitter backlash against disco – but at least different visions of male sexuality could now be played out in public.

Penny Wainwright Leeds The Abortion Act 1967 did not and does not require two doctors to agree "that the termination is in the best mental and physical interests of the woman" ("Hunt call for abortion limit sparks bitter backlash", News).

But the drone attacks have also taken a heavy toll on civilians, generating a bitter popular backlash against US policies toward those countries.

The result has been a bitter rightwing backlash, with one of the main parties, Ataka, which means attack, enjoying a resurgence in its membership through championing "Bulgaria for Bulgarians".

When two researchers published a study a few years ago concluding that arts classes do not improve students' overall academic performance, the backlash was bitter.

A NATO operation could produce a similar backlash, given the bitter residue of European colonialism in North Africa.

The resultant backlash comes as a bitter reminder that the market forces that Mr Lay once worshipped can prove a double-edged sword.